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Joana Rita Ramalho

Joana Rita Ramalho (MA Film Studies, UCL) teaches Portuguese language and
luso-Brazilian culture and literature. She is doing a Ph.D in Film Studies in
the Centre for Intercultural Studies (UCL). Her research interests include the
representation of death, memory and the oneiric in art, the relation between
Romanticism and the Gothic in European and American cinema, and the role of
sound and space in film. She studied journalism and European
languages at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and has a degree in Media Studies from the New University of
Lisbon.